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informed us that John Prescott said “sorry” for letting people down. They must have been watching a different John Prescott speech than the one he made at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester – because that John Prescott only apologised to the Labour Party, not the electorate at large.

Later in the bulletin, they reported on the move of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond from a hospital in Leeds to a hospital in Bristol. The BBC’s reporter, “Going Live” from outside the hospital, waxed on about the superb facilities of the hospital, which we could see over her shoulder is a BUPA hospital. Usually the BBC house style demands that such establishments are prefixed with the pejorative term (to the BBC at least), ‘private’, but not on this occasion it seems. I wonder if the BBC are picking up the bill for Mr. Hammond’s stay.

the judge named in the blackmail case that finished at the Old Bailey yesterday was referred to as Ilyas Khan and Mr. Khan. Curiously, other news outlets, including the BBC Ten O’Clock News, used the judge’s full name – Mohammed Ilyas Khan. Doubtless the Six’s omission was for lack of space.

Could the main Radio Four news headline be that “London’s busiest jail is overrun with cockroaches and rats”.

Not only that, but apparently officers didn’t always treat the inmates with respect – some of them apparently considering themselves to be a cut above the inmates. How judgemental can you get ?

You can’t say our national broadcaster doesn’t have its finger on the concerns of the average Briton.

Michael Medved (presumably this Michael Medved whom I didn’t know until today was also this Michael Medved) writes:

I would like to send you the following link from the BBC:

“Lebanon’s president castigates UN”

“Showing a picture of a child killed in the conflict, Mr Lahoud asked: “How
many, children like this one here are going to die because nobody does anything for them?”

It’s interesting to notice that the photo shows nobody else but the notorious “Green Helmet”, carrying the same (freshly or for a long time)dead children relentlessly into the cameras over and over again at different locations in Lebanon.”

Green Helmet was first spotted by Richard North of EU Referendum. Here’s a You Tube clip of GH at work.

I am a kindly soul and I did wonder if it were not over-demanding to expect the BBC to zoom in and comment on some bit of paper in the hand of a national leader present at a UN meeting. Then again, they managed to zoom in and comment on this, so why not?

By the way, hello again. I have about a squidgzillion other emails in my in box. Some of them might even get posted.

UPDATE: Actually, it turns out that it’s a different Michael Medved. The Michael Medved whose email is quoted above writes that he is often mistaken for the US talk show host, and “I kind of got used to it :-)”

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“In an appearance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, former US President Bill Clinton charmed his audience in a wide-ranging talk.” Talk about a love-in. Telly taxpayers pay for this stuff. But I guess that’s just what the BBC do.

Oops- maybe I got the photo and text confused. Find out what Bill Clinton did recently that was really newsworthy here (video) or here (text).

“Religious fears force off opera

A Berlin opera company cancelled a Mozart production over security fears because it features the severed heads of the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus.”

article here

1)The Mozart opera was not cancelled due to fear of “religion”.

2)It was not for the offence given by the (staged, obviously!) severed head of Jesus that the Mozart opera was cancelled.

3)If the cancelling of the Mozart opera had anything to do with Jesus, the artist pictured below would be living with a permanent threat of death hanging over him, like Salman Rushdie.

(if anyone says that this blog is fixated on Islam/Muslims/racist etc, bring it on say I. This blog is focussed on BBC bias, and just now the BBC is far from objective when confronted with Islamic fascism. They are fixated on truth avoidance, like rabbits in the headlights of history. So there.)

DFH pointed out that this recent article on Iran by Frances Harrison met with the approval of MPACUK.

What do you think? I haven’t time to go a’fisking, but it seems to me a case of the BBC celebrating dhimmitude. Here are two articles to start you off: Here and Here

This could be point one:

1) There are 25,000 Jews (est) in Iran. Our Frances says “few know that Iran is home to the largest number of Jews anywhere in the Middle East outside Israel.”

Nope- knew that. What I didn’t know, actually, was that it had dropped from 80,000 at the time of the Khomeniac revolution. Strangely Frances didn’t have the figure handy for that one, and leaves it until the end of the article to point out that there has been an exodus connected with the Islamic revolution at all:

“The exodus of Jews from Iran seems to have slowed down – the first wave was in the 1950s and the second was in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.”

So, the first wave was in the 50’s (guess why, anyone?), and the second in the 80’s (guess why?- different reason I would venture).

Please add your observations. I loveclose observations.

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